I unfortunately didn't manage to finish this book, I can't quite put my finger on what it was about this book that made it a DNF for me as I quite liked the raw, realistic way in which it was written, it wouldn't have ordinarily been my genre of book so that may be why I struggled with this.

Interesting premise, but I just can’t. I couldn’t even get through the first chapter; I’m sorry. I’m grossed out and dislike how crass things are this early in. I don’t think it’s going to get better, and unfortunately I won’t be finding out. I’d give an A for the basic concept, then I’d stop there.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for granting me the review opportunity all the same,

As the name suggests the novel is seen from the perspective of a fly. The fly follows the lives of characters, Tristan and Hannah, Raymond and Fi. Their dysfunctional marriage in an urban set up is the standpoint of the entire story.

Tristan and Raymond are teachers. Tristan is married to Hannah and is childless. The society taints him by pointing at his impotence. Hannah on the other hand doesn't want kids, is always on contraceptive pills (unbeknownst to her husband) and is anorexic. Raymond, on the other hand wants to be the patriarch of the family by making sure that he keeps his wife under control. He will be found talking about how infidelity isn't macho but he has been "snogging" a colleague at school. This and much more add dimensions to the whole theme of infidelity.

If you look at it, it is just an everyday story but on a closer inspection you get to see the way author has handled the theme. The divorce cases that are on the rise is because we don't want to work out on the "us" part, we have only been focusing on "you/I." And to show it from the perspective of a fly, the one that thrives on stink and muck. One gets the picture why the author has used the perspective of a fly.

I've never read anything like this book before. Full of language not for the faint hearted. The premise is incredibly original though. Adultery and lies seen through the eyes of a fly!

I am struggling to review Fly… I struggled to read it. The writing felt quite cheap, using easy and lazy shock factors (such as unnecessarily secretion descriptions). I will be the first person to say that you don’t have to like characters in order to enjoy a book. In fact, I am far more likely to enjoy a book if I don’t like the characters. That said… These characters were written so unnecessarily vulgar that it seemed gimmicky?

This might be good for some readers, but it wasn't for me. It felt overly gimmicky, and the gross out over the top stuff didn't serve as good a story as I'd like. I would recommend Mr. Peanut or something instead.

This is hard to rate. The writing was solid and this purposely looked at the baser, less admirable characteristics of people/relationships. There was, however, very little redeeming quality to these characters...or frankly, the story itself. I am certainly not a prude, but it often seemed base and vulgar for the shock value. Maybe the author just really despises people in general. Not funny, not insightful,...just vulgar and depressing.